Machine for the transformation of reeds into slats or strips



PAUL DE GUARDlA-CALMETES.

MACHINE FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF REEDS IN TO SLATS 0R STRIP-S.APPLICATION NLED MAR.24, 1920..

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PAUL DE GUARDlK-CALMETES.

MACHINE roa THE TRANSFORMATION or REEDS [m0 SLATS 0R STRIPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 24; 1920.

Patented June 27, 1922;

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entree I rent DE GUARBIA-CALMET as, or PERPIGNAN, FRANCE.

MACHINE FOR THE TRANSFGBMATIGN OF REEDS INTO SLATS OR STRIPS.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Pgrtigntgd June 2'7, 1922,

Application filed March 1920. Serial No. 368,371.

To all who 12bit may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL nnGUAnom-CAL- nirrns, citizen of the Republicof France, residing at Perpignan, France, Pyrenees- Urientales, l RueEglise nee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachines for the Transformation of Reeds intofilats or Strips; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and .use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters orfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to a machine for the transformation of reeds intoslats or strips suitable for the manufacture of coiling lathwork,baskets, and for other purposes. v

According to the invention, the reeds are disposed horizontally betweeninclined bars forming a sort of hopper from whence they are picked upone by one by a distributing wheel which causes them to pass one afterthe other and end to end between pairs of cylinders which convey theminto a centering funnel before they are made to proceed along the axisof adevice provided with rotary knives for the purpose of peeling offthe outer surface.

On leaving the peeling device, the reeds are conveyed into anotherdevice containing feed cylinders and provided with a knife for thepurpose of slitting the reeds longitudinally. i

The reeds when thus slit are subsequently opened and flattened in sucha.manner'as to form a sort of wide strip or band composed of narrow stripportions or. elements lying side by side, which however are still boundtogether by the fibres of the reed that have not been severed by theflattening operation. The ends of the several lengths of reed are thenconnected together manually by means of flexible metal. fasteners (whichare removed when the fabric is woven) in such a manner as to produce aband of very great length, this being wound upon reels which aresubsequently employed in a special weaving loom in order to constitutethe warp and the woof of the fabric.

The accompanying drawings show a diagrammatic representation of theinstallation of the machine which constitutes an embodiment of thepresent invention.

Fig. 1 shows a diagrammatic representation of apparatus designed for thepreparation of reed strips and for winding the same upon reels. i

Fig. 2 is a side view of the hopper and feed mechanism. 7

Fig. 3 is a front view of the apparatus employed for peeling 011' theouter surface of the reeds.

Fig. 4% is a cross section of the same. Figs. 5 and 6 represent, in twoviews, the

two lengths of strip. I

Figs. 7, 8 and 9 shows details of a fastener employed for this purpose.

The reeds l are disposed between the inclined bars 2 which constitute asort of hopper at whose lower part on the side adjacent the, feed rolls4 they are picked up one by. one by a distributing wheel 3. This wheel,3 rotates slowly and depresses one end of each reed as it is picked upby the teeth of each wheel, and'this depressing movement together withthe gravity cause the reeds also to have a slight longitudinal movementtoward the feed rolls, so..as to feed into the nip of the rolls. In mostinstances the butt ends of the reeds will contact with the upper roll,and there will be some slight friction of the. reed end against the rollassisting it to 1nove into the roll nip. Short reeds or reedsiimproperly placed must be fed to the roll nip by an operative. Thenfrom this part the reedpasses between the feed cylinders 4:, 4:, whichlead it into a centering funnel designed to convey the reed into therotary peeling device 6 which is adapted to clean off the outer surface;this latter device will be subsequently described.

On leaving this device the reed passes between the feed cylinders 7 ofthe splitting device which contains for this purpose a knife 8 forcutting a longitudinal slit in method employed for temporarilyattaching.

partly wound upon the receiving reel 10, shall be fastened to the end ofthe next reed under treatment and which is leaving the flatteningmachine, in such a manner as to obtain a very considerable length ofstrip or band rolled up on the reel 10, since the reels which are thuswound are designed to be employed upon the weaving loom.

The upper and lower feed cylinders just mentioned can be spring mountedin order to enable them to take along all kindsof reeds regardless ofthickness.

The device employed for peeling the reeds as shown in Figs. 3 and fcontains a stationary portion 11 provided with a circular toothed crown12 upon which rotate the two toothed pinions 13 mounted upon the shafts14, which latter are held in the bearings 15 attached to a plate 16 madein one with a shaft 17 adapted to rotate by means of the pulley 18, thislatter being belt connected to any suitable transmission device. Theother end of each of the shafts 1 1 carries a gear wheel 19 whichtransmits the movement to a shaft 20 through a pinion 21. The shaft 20carries at its inner end a revolving knife 22 which is spring mounted insuch manner as to operate properly upon the reed to be peeled, whatevermay be the thickness of the latter.

The movable plate 16 has a central opening 28 to provide for the passageof the reed to be peeled.

From the foregoing arrangement it follows that the reed which moves.forward along the axis of the apparatus is peeled. up on its entiresurface by the rotary action of the knife-carrying plate, combined withthe rotation of the knives themselves which is effected by the rotationof the pinions 13 upon the stationary toothed crown 12.

The end of the reed strip which is partially wound upon the reel 10 andis leaving the flattening device, is connected to the removed (by simplypulling them out) when the fabric is entirely finished. This temporaryfastening of the overlapping ends of successive flattened reeds is amanual operation.

I claim 1. Mechanism for transforming reeds into continuous strips forweaving, which cemprises a hopper device in which the reeds liehorizontally, said device having at one side a narrow portion, aseparating wheel to singly depress the ends of said reeds, feeding rollsto which said reeds are fed singly by said wheel, a guide funnel for thereeds fed from said rolls, a pair of oppositely positioned peelingknives rotatable substantially parallel to the reeds, means to permitaxial 'movement of said knives and means to revolve the knives about thereed being peeled, a slitting knife to slit the reeds partly throughlongitudinally as they emerge from the peeling knives, flattening meansto flatten the slit reeds, and a reel onto which the reeds are woundafter the flattened reeds have been manually secured end to end.

2. Mechanism for transforming reeds into continuous flat strips forweaving, comprising a hopper device in which the reeds lie horizontally,said device having at one side a narrow portion, a separating wheel atsuch portion to singly depress the ends of the reeds, feeding rolls towhich said reeds are fed singly by said wheel, a guide cone to centrallyguide the reeds from Said feed rolls, a peeling device to which said.cone centrally feeds the reeds, said peeling de vice comprising twopeeling blade devices rotatable parallel to said reeds and between whichsaid reeds are fed, means to permit said blade devices to move axiallyto accommodate reeds of different thicknesses, mechanism tosimultaneously rotate and re volve said devices, a stationary knife,rolls to feed the peeled reeds to and from said knife to longitudinallyslit the reeds partly through, flattening rolls to flatten'the splitreeds and a reel onto which said flattened reeds are wound as theyemerge from the flattening rolls, and manually applied temporaryfastening means to secure the reeds end to end.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name.

PAUL DE GUARDIA-CALMETES.

